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by slifty 14y ago
For the record this was an oversight in the rush to get this out ASAP -- I'm correcting it now (thanks for calling it out!)
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by slifty 14y ago
Absolutely! We have some contacts at the organization and are hoping they will lean towards finding this amusing rather than finding this offensive (although what a story that would be ;) ) || if they don't like it they will let us know!
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by slifty 14y ago
Well, the big concern is that those look like cache files, which means they could just go away at any second. In the rush to launch I didn't care, but I should be more careful / make the change before that link just dies.
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by slifty 14y ago
Taking suggestions on places to link to! We've swapped out a few of them, but were waiting for inspiration to strike for the others.
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by slifty 14y ago
Can't argue with ya' there.
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by slifty 14y ago
Not a bad idea ;) Worth noting that I have reached out to the mods of /nottheonion to let them know about it and ask if they would like anything else done (since the only reason this doesn't suck is because of their community)
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by slifty 14y ago
Yep! real headlines -- curation is done by redditors (why re-invent something that already kicks ass)
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by slifty 14y ago
As a quick backstory: This is a mashup between /r/nottheonion, google image search, and The Onion's CSS. Pretty crazy what a little styling can do to the way your brain interprets information!
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Show HN: Like The Onion, But Real(theon1on.com)
127 points by slifty 14y ago|90 comments
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by slifty 14y ago
I did assume as much. I'm curious, since so many in J-orgs are trying to change the status quo, if there are success stories that are worth paying attention to.
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Why Journalism Tools Gather Dust(slifty.com)
16 points by slifty 14y ago|6 comments
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by slifty 14y ago
Fiiiiiiiiinnnneeeeeeeeeeeee. X( As for the CC issues, I'm starting with C-SPAN simply because there is a lot more precedent for legal non-commercial fair use. Using this for other situations is another question. Based on a cursory explor
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by slifty 14y ago
For now we're cheating and using a thing called TextGrabber (we were in a rush for the debates and couldn't play with more direct software solutions, but those absolutely exist). The box costs about $300 :: http://www.textgrabber.com/ If
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by slifty 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I did do a quick look into it up front and my gut feeling was that since "opened" and "open" were different it might be OK. I liked the meaning of "Opened Captions." Still a very valid point, and that concern won'
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by slifty 14y ago
Just wanted to give a shoutout to the first dirty hack using OpenedCaptions: DRUNK-SAPN It is a C-SPAN transcript that gets increasingly drunk. http://openedcaptions.com/drunk-sapn/
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Show HN: DRUNK-SAPN -- A live, drunken, debate transcript(openedcaptions.com)
12 points by slifty 14y ago|0 comments
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Y Combinator style applications in the Non-profit world(newschallenge.tumblr.com)
8 points by slifty 14y ago|1 comments
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by slifty 14y ago
Yep -- apologies for that. I found the offending plugin and killed it dead.
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by slifty 14y ago
Achievement Unlocked: JOURNALISM
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by slifty 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing -- search "Navy" And don't you try to tell me that the Navy doesn't try to protect its king.
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by slifty 14y ago
I'd like some more good Tor jokes, by the way...
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A Tor of the Dark Web(slifty.com)
310 points by slifty 14y ago|204 comments
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by slifty 15y ago
Sounds like we do, in fact, agree. The full title of the thesis is: "Truth Goggles: Automatic Incorporation of Context and Primary Sources to Enable Critical Media Consumption" This tool won't tell you what to think; it will merely remind
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by slifty 15y ago
So how do you propose we function as a democracy if any media source that covers political issues is so full of shit that there is no point in even considering it? Your perspective is extreme, but it is a very important concern. If only so
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by slifty 15y ago
This is like saying "I don't understand how watching a movie is any more effective than just looking at a script." Not everybody has access to the script. Not everyone has time or capacity to take that script and turn it into a movie in the
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by slifty 15y ago
You are absolutely right -- and I'm not coming into this project with the illusion that any given source will be universally trusted (or trusted at all). I don't want to create a tool that people will look at and say "all righty then! Tim
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Megapaper: Super Mario World on 16 Spaces(slifty.com)
11 points by slifty 15y ago|0 comments
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by slifty 15y ago
I thought kids couldn't see R-rated movies in theaters without parent supervision. I remember being turned away from a ticket counter for that.
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by slifty 15y ago
Taking a lesson from jQuery I see.
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by slifty 15y ago
As of 2009 when I graduated, Carnegie Mellon's course registration and student management web page shut down after 8:00 PM Maybe these guys were CMU grads ;)

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